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Abstinence Backer Bristol No Hypocrite

Media attacks miss the point: she's a 'natural messenger'

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted May 8, 2009 10:33 AM CDT

(Newser) – Bristol Palin has gotten a media drubbing for hypocrisy in her new role as abstinence advocate—but such attacks are wholly undeserved, writes Nancy Gibbs in Time. The “true hypocrisy,” one could say, was at the Republican convention, which portrayed a falsely simple... Read full story »

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